Technology

A man described by Waymo as a disgruntled former driver has been arrested on suspicion of deliberately crashing a passenger car into one of the company’s vans with self-driving capabilities By WALTER BERRY Associated Press February 13, 2020, 11:28 PM 3 min read PHOENIX — A man described as a disgruntled former Waymo driver has […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has charged Huawei and two of its subsidiaries with federal racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets from American companies, a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s legal fight with the Chinese telecommunications company. In a federal indictment unsealed on Thursday, the Department of Justice accused Huawei and its affiliates

Last month was the hottest January since scientists began keeping temperature records in 1880 February 13, 2020, 8:17 PM 1 min read WASHINGTON — Last month was the hottest January since scientists began keeping temperature records in 1880, U.S. government forecasters said Thursday. The global average land and ocean surface temperature in January was 2.05

A federal judge in Washington ordered Microsoft on Thursday to halt all work on a $10 billion cloud-computing contract for the Pentagon, in a victory for Amazon, which had challenged the awarding of the contract. In a sealed opinion, the judge, Patricia E. Campbell-Smith of the Court of Federal Claims, ordered work to stop on

A federal court has ordered the Pentagon to temporarily halt work with Microsoft on a $10 billion military cloud contract that Amazon was initially favored to win By JOSEPH PISANI and RACHEL LERMAN AP Business Writers February 13, 2020, 8:39 PM 2 min read NEW YORK — A federal court has ordered a temporary halt

Tesla received a subpoena in December from the Securities and Exchange Commission asking the electric-car maker to turn over information about its financial data and contracts, the company said in a filing with the agency on Thursday. In the filing, Tesla also said that the S.E.C. had closed a separate investigation into projections and statements

A court in Moscow has fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles each for refusing to store the personal data of Russian citizens on servers in Russia February 13, 2020, 1:45 PM 2 min read MOSCOW — A court in Moscow fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles each Thursday for refusing to store the

FARMER CITY, Illinois — In a research field off Highway 54 last autumn, corn stalks shimmered in rows 40-feet deep. Girish Chowdhary, an agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, bent to place a small white robot at the edge of a row marked 103. The robot, named TerraSentia, resembled a souped up

Add one more to the list of “smart” things we’ve come to know in recent years: the smart tire. For the longest time — more than a century — tires were just rubber doughnuts. In later years, tires got an edge, called a bead, that held it to the wheel’s rim. But conventional tires are

SHANGHAI — China’s military on Thursday denied accusations that it hacked Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting companies in the United States. In a harshly worded release, Wu Qian, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of National Defense, said that the American charges against four of its members were “without a basis in fact.” “This